Fence fastener

Abstract

A fastener for anchoring fencing to a post. The fastener includes first and second separable and complementary sections, each section have an inner and outer surface, a middle web portion, opposed first and second sides extend from opposite edges of the middle web portion in a direction outwardly from the middle web portion, and opposed first and second ends. Male coupling members extend in a direction outward from one of the sides of the first section and the second section has female receiving spaces on one of the sided. Wherein the male coupling members being biasable for engagement with the spaces to detachably secure the sections together with the inner surfaces facing one another such that the inner surfaces define an axial passage that extends from the first to the second ends of the sections, whereby the passage permits the fencing and post to be clamped together between the sections.

1. A fence and fence fastener assembly, comprising:
 a section of open mesh fencing; 
 a fence post; 
 said section of fencing extending across said fence post; 
 a fence fastener including first and second separable and complementary semi-circular sections; each section having first and second sides extending from a middle web portion, each of said first and second sides terminating at an edge; said fence fastener further including one or more male coupling members extending outwardly from each of said first and said second sides beyond said edges thereof of said first section, each of said one or more male coupling members including a protrusion; said second section having one or more female receiving spaces on each of said first and said second sides of said second section at a position inwardly from said edges thereof in a direction towards said middle web portion; each of said one or more male coupling members being biasable such that said protrusion extends through said section of open mesh fencing and is frictionally engagable into said one or more female receiving spaces in a releasable, snap-fit engagement; 
 said first and said second sections positioned on opposite sides of said fence post and said section of fencing and secured together with said edges of said first and said second sides of said first section opposed to said edges of said first and said second sides of said first section at a spaced distance forming a gap therebetween and clamping said fence post and said section of fencing with said fence post and said section of fencing disposed within an axial passage formed by an inner surface of each of said first and said second sections and with said section of fencing extending said gap. 
 
   
   
     2. The assembly of  claim 1 , wherein each of said female receiving spaces a through holes extending laterally through said first and said second sides, respectively, of said second section. 
   
   
     3. The assembly of  claim 2 , wherein each of said one or more male coupling members being laterally biasable. 
   
   
     4. The assembly of  claim 1 , wherein said axial passage extends between first and second ends of each of said first and said second sections.